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...imbecile. Yet with all due deference to her we believe she is mistaken. Whatever may have been her intention, she has not fairly represented Harvard's attitude toward her own withdrawal from the foot ball league. Very possibly there are men among us whose natural timidity forces them to look askance at Harvard's recent action, but these men neither represent the prevailing sentiment nor wield the strongest influence here. Harvard is not sorry that she has taken the stand she has. As we have pointed out before, she is in a far better position than any she has occupied...
...profession of pedagogy? How few I will not venture to say. Is teaching a profession, when the majority of teachers are elected once a year? Is it a profession when more than 33 per cent. are replaced every year? There are a few men and women who look upon it as a profession. The great majority of persons who teach, however, never intend to treat teaching as a profession. I say, therefore, that the institutions of higher education have some good reasons for not attempting to teach the philosophy of education. I thing, too, we may offer another apology...
...make headway in a body of students. The danger would be most likely to come from an impure water supply. It is utterly impossible for a man to protect himself as an individual from such danger but he can support the public authorities whose business it is to look out for the general health...
...forget that so long as the Yale-Princeton game occurs in New York on Thanksgiving day, it will remain the great event of the year, the one that brings in most money to the athletic associations of the colleges competing, the one the great athletes who compete or look on will look forward to with keenest expectation. Until we win, therefore, and earn a place in that game, our efforts toward a dual league will result practically in a dual league between Yale and Princeton, with Harvard "outside the breastworks." It seems to me much like saying to Princeton...
...acted accordingly, some of them would not have appeared so unfit to play as they did yesterday. The team must feel the size of their task and must know that only work can bring victory. The time is now short but the decided change for the better which we look for will bring about astonishing results...